…from it. (Here’s a hint: “Follow the money.”) The life and death of Jim Jones and his followers in Jonestown still mystifies people to this day. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” has…
…had been given a week before the event, I was shocked at the items: “Drink the Kool-Aid: How to improve communication between departments.” As always, my stomach turned when confronted…
…the Kool-Aid doesn’t mean that friendships are bad, but that people who drink the Kool-Aid lacked discernment in who they got involved or connected with.” Using Jargon Not Always a…
…Is the GOP Bound for ‘Political Jonestown’? by J.P. Green, The Democratic Strategist, 5 July 2011 https://thedemocraticstrategist.org/?s=What+puzzles+is+why+all+of+the+Republicans+have+guzzled+the+Koolaid What puzzles is why all of the Republicans have guzzled the Koolaid. Why…
…I say this for three reasons: • It is a useful phrase. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a verb; the noun is “Kool-Aid drinker.” These terms express a complex concept, that…
…found that freedom in cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in the jungles of Guyana. To be fair to the Kool-Aid drinkers, in the 1970s institutional racism was not a distant memory. Many of…
Thirty-six years after the deaths in Guyana, Peoples Temple and Jonestown continue to make the news on a regular basis, usually in the form of cultural references and political commentary….
…consistent with suicide.”[3] The children were forced to drink the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid first, because once a parent loses their child, they lose all other will to go on.[4] Many of…
…in Guyana to drink the poisoned Kool-Aid (actually, it was a cheap knockoff called Flavor Aid) and commit mass suicide? The answer was that Jones took control of the minds…
…after than 900 human beings died at Jonestown after drinking poison mixed into a fruit drink concoction – mistakenly referred to as Kool-Aid, it was actually a powdered fruit concentrate…